Brother this is the biggest travesty and example of abuse of power I have seen for some time.
Your followers (including me) value the work you do and I am sure we will come together to support you.
This may be a little contrversal but, desperate times
Call for desperate measures. Steemit is already ripe with upvote bots and the reality is, a lot of money can be generated by using them. I will not only re steem this but as soon as I get the payout for some of my blog posts I will be sending you an upvote form a bot with the biggest amount I can ( it will not be much but every little helps). Some of the posts on steemit recieve over $1000 per post and are nowhere near he quality of yours.
I encourage anyone on steemit that follows you to do the same.
Good luck sir and enjoy the conference.